HILO – The Boy Who Crashed To Earth By Judd Winick Random House Children’s Books 193 pages What we have with this charming, wonderfully illustrated hardback book is a marriage between traditional children’s books and your standard graphic novel. Formatted like a comic but capturing the essence of a children’s
THE BLACK STILETTO By Raymond Benson Oceanview Publishing 266 pages Did you ever wish you had a lot more time to read? I have to believe everyone reading these reviews is now nodding their head affirmatively. It seems every day a new book comes out that appeals to our particular
CRYPTOZOOLOGY ANTHOLOGY Edited by Robert Deis, David Coleman & Wyatt Dole New Texture 281 pages Once again, Men’s Adventure Magazines (MAMS) historian, Robert Deis, and his co-horts, David Coleman and Wyatt Dole, have put together another absolutely wonderful collection of bizarre tales culled from the various MAMS published between the
THE QUEST OF FRANKENSTEIN By Frank Schildiner 250 pages Black Coat Press Most of my experiences with Frank Schildiner’s work has been reading and editing his fast paced, action pack hero-pulp short stories. That his first full length novel should be one of unremitting horror came as a surprise to
HADON, King of Opar By Christopher Paul Carey Meteor House Press 153 pages Opar, the lost jungle city first appeared in the pages of Edgar Rice Burrough’s “The Return of Tarzan.” Some believe Burroughs took the name from the Biblical reference to Ophir, whence King Solomon supposedly received a cargo
HE-MEN, BAG MEN & NYMPHOS Stories by Walter Kaylin Edited by Robert Deis & Wyatt Doyle New Texture 283 pages A little while ago this reviewer had the joy of discovering the fiction world of Men’s Adventure Magazines that proliferated the newsstands of the 50s, 60s and 70s via a
TRIPL3 CROSS An Eliot Cross Adventure By John Hegenberger Rough Edge Press 144 pages We so love discovering talented writers like John Hegenberger. Although still relatively new to pulp fiction, he has a wonderful, clean, no-nonsense style of writing that is always a pleasure to read. His new spy thriller,
SEVEN FOR A SECRET A Timothy Wilde Novel By Linsay Faye The Penguin Group 451 pages In 2012 writer Lyndsay Faye set mystery fiction world on its collective rear with the release of her historical mystery, “The Gods of Gotham.” That it went on to receive a Best Novel nominations
THE DIGEST ENTHUSIAST – Book Two Editor Arkay Olgar Contributing Editor D. Blake Werts Larque Press LLC 151 pg Having really enjoyed issue #1 of this terrific new digest, I was delighted to find # 2 in my mailbox a few weeks ago. Much like the first volume, this second
WEASELS RIPPED MY FLESH! Edited by Deis, Friedman & Doyle Published by: New Texture 416 pages Telling you this book is amazing would be perpetuating the biggest understatement of all time. It is a fantastic collection of over-the-top fiction and articles from those garish, exploitive men’s adventure magazines that proliferated
THE MEN WHO MADE THE YANKEES By W. Nikola-Lisa Gyroscopebooks.Com 113 pages This is not the first time we’ve reviewed a non-fiction book in this column. That is not the relevant note here but rather what the theme of this new review is and our own personal passion. Let it
SHERLOCK HOLMES Blood to the Bone By Andrew Salmon A Fight Card book. 89 pages Among today’s writers of New Pulp fiction, two men have risen to the top of their generation’s class in writing new Sherlock Holmes mysteries. One of these is Canadian Andrew Salmon, the other is British
